How did you use Evernote and the Evernote Web Clipper to support your work in this course?
Describe your LRKB's organizational scheme. How many notebooks have your created? What (if any) tags are your using? What uses (if any) have you discovered for note links?
Reflect on how you think that viewing your notes as a lasting resource might affect how you participate in future courses.
In EDC 102H, students built up Learning and Reflection Knowledge Bases using the Evernote application. We made online accounts and also downloaded the app to our computers. It was mainly up to the students how much or how little to use Evernote after the initial introductory assignment. It was completely up to the students how to organize their notes, although our professor showed us his Evernote and gave us many helpful suggestions. We had the opportunity to use Evernote in whatever capacity we wanted, and I believe that contributed to how successful students were with it. At first, I used Evernote when it was required, but then I wanted to use it on my own. The first assignment we had was to look up sources relating to using Evernote and clip them to our downloaded app. That was the first time I used the Web Clipper, and it was very helpful. In the past, I would copy and paste entire articles I needed into Google Docs, but using the Web Clipper is much easier and cleaner, since it can take only the article and exclude ads on the top and sides of the webpage. I kept using Evernote to clip sources. I used it to keep track of my research for the school investigation project and the final project on education issues. I also used it for class notes. I use a combination of notebooks and tags to organize my Evernote. Since I want to use Evernote for other classes where I need to keep track of sources, I tagged every note I made in this class with “EDC102H” so I can keep track of notes by class. My notes are organized into notebooks based on assignment. I created one notebook called Evernote Sources which contained the articles about how to use Evernote from our first assignment, and then I made another notebook called Class Notes to keep records of our class discussions. When we investigated a charter school and regular school in the same district, I created a notebook for my sources called “School Investigation.” For the final project, our group researched special education and I put all the sources I found into a notebook called EDC102H Final Project. I specifically researched transition services, so to separate the notes in that notebook related to transition services from notes about other aspects of special education, I used the tag “transition services.” I expect to modify my tagging and notebook system as I continue to use Evernote for future courses, but I think this class gave me a good introduction. Evernote gives me the ability to keep notes from many classes and subjects in one place and build up a collection of knowledge as a lasting resource. My notes and research from this class were not for strategic learning for the purpose of succeeding in this class alone; since they are about education, they will be relevant to all learning I do for the rest of my life. When reading Work Hard. Be Nice., I started a note called “High School Teaching Ideas,” which will likely be my most important lasting resource. The book gave me ideas about how to help my students in and beyond the classroom and inspired me to come up with even more ideas. I wrote them all down and expect to keep adding to the list. My tagging system will also help me keep track of a subject through many different courses, since notes relating to one subject can be spread out between many different notebooks. EDC 102H provided me with a useful introduction to Evernote and information I will use for the remainder of my education. The Web Clipper and notebooks make it easy for me to save and organize my research, and the tagging system allows me to relate notes from different classes and projects to each other based on subject. Note organization and relation make it possible to form a knowledge base of many subjects from different classes and projects. The research in my notes forms my Learning and Reflection Knowledge Base, and I will be adding to this knowledge base for the remainder of my education, even after college.
In EDC 102H, students built up Learning and Reflection Knowledge Bases using the Evernote application. We made online accounts and also downloaded the app to our computers. It was mainly up to the students how much or how little to use Evernote after the initial introductory assignment. It was completely up to the students how to organize their notes, although our professor showed us his Evernote and gave us many helpful suggestions. We had the opportunity to use Evernote in whatever capacity we wanted, and I believe that contributed to how successful students were with it.
At first, I used Evernote when it was required, but then I wanted to use it on my own. The first assignment we had was to look up sources relating to using Evernote and clip them to our downloaded app. That was the first time I used the Web Clipper, and it was very helpful. In the past, I would copy and paste entire articles I needed into Google Docs, but using the Web Clipper is much easier and cleaner, since it can take only the article and exclude ads on the top and sides of the webpage. I kept using Evernote to clip sources. I used it to keep track of my research for the school investigation project and the final project on education issues. I also used it for class notes.
I use a combination of notebooks and tags to organize my Evernote. Since I want to use Evernote for other classes where I need to keep track of sources, I tagged every note I made in this class with “EDC102H” so I can keep track of notes by class. My notes are organized into notebooks based on assignment. I created one notebook called Evernote Sources which contained the articles about how to use Evernote from our first assignment, and then I made another notebook called Class Notes to keep records of our class discussions. When we investigated a charter school and regular school in the same district, I created a notebook for my sources called “School Investigation.” For the final project, our group researched special education and I put all the sources I found into a notebook called EDC102H Final Project. I specifically researched transition services, so to separate the notes in that notebook related to transition services from notes about other aspects of special education, I used the tag “transition services.” I expect to modify my tagging and notebook system as I continue to use Evernote for future courses, but I think this class gave me a good introduction.
Evernote gives me the ability to keep notes from many classes and subjects in one place and build up a collection of knowledge as a lasting resource. My notes and research from this class were not for strategic learning for the purpose of succeeding in this class alone; since they are about education, they will be relevant to all learning I do for the rest of my life. When reading Work Hard. Be Nice., I started a note called “High School Teaching Ideas,” which will likely be my most important lasting resource. The book gave me ideas about how to help my students in and beyond the classroom and inspired me to come up with even more ideas. I wrote them all down and expect to keep adding to the list. My tagging system will also help me keep track of a subject through many different courses, since notes relating to one subject can be spread out between many different notebooks.
EDC 102H provided me with a useful introduction to Evernote and information I will use for the remainder of my education. The Web Clipper and notebooks make it easy for me to save and organize my research, and the tagging system allows me to relate notes from different classes and projects to each other based on subject. Note organization and relation make it possible to form a knowledge base of many subjects from different classes and projects. The research in my notes forms my Learning and Reflection Knowledge Base, and I will be adding to this knowledge base for the remainder of my education, even after college.